nov. 28, 2012 issue of the chronicle

Melinda Gates to speak at commencementby Kristie Kim

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Melinda Gates, an entrepreneur, philanthropist and wife of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, will return to her alma mater to address the Class of 2013 in May.

Gates, Trinity ’86 and Fuqua ’87, is co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and helped de-veloped many of Microsoft’s multi-media products. She also served on Duke’s Board of Trustees from 1996 to 2003.

“I am very excited and honored

about the opportunity to deliver the commencement address at Duke University,” Gates said in a press release Tuesday. “The education I received at Duke has always inspired and motivated my philanthropic work, and I hope to share that sense of optimism and the rigor needed to pursue ambitious goals with this generation of students.”

Named one of Time Magazine’s Persons of the Year, along with her husband Bill and U2 vocalist Bono, in 2005 and one of the top 100 Foreign Policy Magazine’s “Global

Thinkers,” Gates retired from her position at Microsoft in 1996 to de-vote more time to her family and philanthropy. She co-founded the Gates foundation in January 2000 with her husband. Since its incep-tion, the organization has contrib-uted more than $26 billion to sup-port grants from more than 100 countries.

“I can’t think of a more inspir-ing way to send our students forth to their careers than to have Me-linda Gates speak at our commence-ment,” President Richard Brodhead

said in a press release Tuesday. “A double Duke graduate, she gives us a shining example of the difference a compassionate advocate can make in the world.”

Brodhead invited Gates to speak at commencement several years ago, and she agreed to speak earlier this year. For that reason, there was not a formal committee established to recommend a commencement speaker to Brodhead.

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Architects intend to make BC more open, appealing

by Emma BaccellieriTHE CHRONICLE

Renovations to the Bryan Center are intended to create a more attractive space that is more conducive to student col-laboration by the start of the 2013-2014 academic year.

Ted Van Dyk, Trinity ’83 and principal and founder of the ar-chitecture firm, Raleigh-based New City Design Group, dis-played detailed floor plans at an open house Tuesday afternoon. Notable changes will include im-proved accessibility for disabled members of the Duke commu-nity and the unification of the University Bookstore, Gothic Bookshop and Lobby Shop into one complex. Funding for the project is coming from the $80 million that the Charlotte-based

Duke Endowment gave to Duke in March 2011.

“We’re upgrading and updat-ing some of the spaces that have been here for 30 years,” said Van Dyk, noting that this will be the first time any major work has been done to the building’s infrastructure since its construc-tion in 1982.

The plaza entrance to the Bryan Center will be completely remodeled, with glass walls re-placing the current stone ones in an effort to create a more welcoming environment. To-ward the same goal, the space currently occupied by Joe Van Gogh will be replaced by an out-door patio.

“The glass will really soften up the building and modernize it,” Van Dyk said.

Another change to the en-trance will be the exchange of the current doors for sliding ones to improve accessibility in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

“One of the things that we’re doing overall to the whole cen-ter is making ADA improve-ments,” Van Dyk added.

Rails will be placed on the building’s ramps, and handi-capped accessible bathrooms will be built in more central lo-cations.

The building’s top floor will be home to the new Center for LGBT Life and the Office of Student Affairs. These spaces will occupy what are presently the UCAE offices.

RTP strategizes for future expansion

by Parth ChodavadiaTHE CHRONICLE

Leaders of Research Triangle Park recently unveiled their mas-ter plan to attract younger gen-erations of entrepreneurs and develop a more sustainable park.

The plan aims to refocus development to accommodate new companies and adapt to the changing needs of its present research and technology com-panies. The Research Triangle Foundation, which manages the research park, will create a small city within the park by building office space, shopping centers and residential developments, among other facilities. The ur-ban centers will exist in three different locations throughout RTP and account for more than 12.5 million square feet of new development.

RTP was established in 1959 to leverage the research capac-ity at the surrounding univer-sities—Duke, North Carolina State University and the Univer-sity of North Carolina at Cha-pel Hill—to create an attractive location for research-oriented companies. The public-private partnership has grown to house more than 170 companies and 22.5 million square feet of de-velopment, playing a significant role in the economic growth of the Triangle region.

“Research Triangle Park is 50 years old and needs to adapt to the changing needs of the in-dustry,” Bob Geolas, president and CEO of Research Triangle Foundation, wrote in an email Tuesday. “These new urban

ACC files lawsuit against Maryland

by Andrew BeatonTHE CHRONICLE

The Big Ten/ACC Challenge got a little spicier this week.

The ACC filed a lawsuit against Maryland in North Carolina state court after the Terrapins an-nounced last week their intentions to join the Big Ten conference. The case was filed in the Greensboro courthouse Monday, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by The Chronicle.

The lawsuit concerns the pay-ment of the $52 million required to leave the ACC. The exit fee was raised to that figure Sept. 11, 2012 prior to the addition of Notre Dame

to the conference as a partial mem-ber. Maryland and Florida State were the only two schools to vote against the increase.

“We continue to extend our best wishes to the University of Mary-land; however, there is the expecta-tion that Maryland will fulfill its exit fee obligation,“ ACC Commissioner John Swofford said in a statement. “On Friday, the ACC Council of Presidents made the unanimous de-cision to file legal action to ensure the enforcement of this obligation.”

The unanimous decision means that Florida State, the other school to vote against the fee’s increase,

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This blueprint outlines changes to the Bryan Center, the first major renovations since the center was built in 1982. These reno-vations are expected to be completed by Fall 2013.

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Endangered red wolf killings continue in NC

by Danielle MuoioTHE CHRONICLE

The fourth killing of a critically en-dangered red wolf since September in Hyde County, N.C., raises alarm for those part of the revitalization effort.

The red wolf species nearly faced ex-tinction three decades ago and has re-covered slowly through captive breeding efforts, but the recent attacks threaten the small population now living in the wild in North Carolina. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has offered a re-ward up to $2,500 to anyone with infor-mation about the red wolf death that oc-curred Nov. 14 as a result of a suspected

gunshot wound. “There are a certain number of peo-

ple who do mistakenly shoot these ani-mals, but there are also a good number of people who know they are shooting red wolves,” said Frank Simms, National Wildlife Refuge System law enforcement officer. “In both circumstances they are investigated equally, regardless.”

The original red wolf population size was in the tens of thousands and spanned across the country from central Texas to Pennsylvania, said Robert Wayne, North Carolina Wildlife Resources commission

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Web initiative’s push for privacy hits virtual wall

by Craig timbergTHE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — The two-year-old drive to give consumers a simple way to block com-panies from tracking their behavior as they move across the Internet has faltered, say par-ticipants in the process who are struggling to reconcile privacy concerns with an advertising model that pays for many free Internet ser-vices.

The friction puts in peril the “Do Not Track” initiative that appeared to have wide-spread support at a White House event in February, when industry officials endorsed it in concept. Federal Trade Commission Chair-man Jon Leibowitz, who also embraced the idea as central to the independent agency’s push for protecting personal data privacy, had predicted a deal by the end of the year.

But meetings of a key working committee have turned acrimonious in recent months, and a co-chairwoman of the effort plans to step down Wednesday. Participants now say a deal remains months away, and some say it may take federal action to limit Internet track-ing.

“This thing has stalled, and there has been deliberate obstructionism by some segments of the advertising industry, and there is great frustration because of this,” said John Simpson of Consumer Watchdog, one of several privacy advocates working on the issue.

The idea for a Do Not Track system was in-spired by the popular “do not call” lists that have curtailed telemarketing calls, but there have been sharp disagreements about how to build a system that limits tracking without un-

dermining the advertising revenue that pays for many free Internet services.

Industry groups voluntarily adopted a ver-sion last year giving consumers the ability to block advertising based on their Web browsing history. Officials from the Digital Advertising Alliance, which organized the effort, said that nearly 20 million users have visited the site at youradchoices.com and that more than 1 mil-lion have chosen to opt out of ad tracking.

But privacy advocates have called this sys-tem hard to use and too permissive in the in-formation it allows marketers to collect. The two sides have clashed repeatedly in meetings of a working committee of the World Wide Web Consortium, a group that was charged with negotiating policies on how to imple-ment a Do Not Track system. The consortium sets industry standards for the Web but has struggled to handle this issue.

“That process has not gone particularly well,” said Stuart Ingis, a Washington-based lawyer representing the Digital Advertising Alliance. He welcomed Wednesday’s planned resignation of co-chairwoman Aleecia McDon-ald, a Stanford University privacy researcher, as an opportunity to jump-start the process.

McDonald, who will remain a member of the 97-person committee, said she favored new leadership overseeing a process that has become “very contentious” in recent months but has developed renewed energy since Presi-dent Barack Obama’s re-election. “We’ve seen a resurgence of interest,” she said, adding, “We’re not going to get it done by January 1.”

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Four red wolves have been killed in Hyde County, N.C. since the start of this year’s hunting season, a blow to the critically endangered species.

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Satellites show rocket activity in N. Korea

by Chico harlanTHE WASHINGTON POST

SEOUL — With fresh satel-lite images showing increas-ing activity at its launch site, North Korea could be ready to fire a long-range rocket within several weeks, South Korean officials said Tuesday.

“There is a high possibility” of a launch between Decem-ber and January, a senior mili-tary official told South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.

The assessment followed the release of an image Mon-day by DigitalGlobe, which provides satellite imagery to the U.S. government. The im-age showed people, trucks and fuel tanks at the Sohae launch site, in North Korea’s north-western corner. The activity, DigitalGlobe said on its web-site, is consistent with prepa-rations in the weeks before Pyongyang’s long-range blast in April.

The family-run police state has said nothing about immi-nent plans for a launch, and security analysts cautioned that Pyongyang might not go through with a move that would rile its lone benefac-tor, China, whose Communist Party is breaking in new lead-ership.

But a North Korean del-egate told a U.N. General As-sembly meeting two weeks ago that the North would expand its space development pro-gram and “go through with launches of working satellites of all kinds essential for the economic development of the country.”

North Korea has claimed that previous rocket launches were used to place satellites into orbit. Washington and its allies in East Asia, though, say that such launches are de facto long-range missile tests, because they rely on the same technology. The North is banned under U.N. security resolutions from using “ballis-tic missile technology.”

If the North does proceed with a launch, timing will be crucial—The blast could ei-ther prove a factor in South Korea’s Dec. 19 presidential election or become the first major test for the new leader. For now, North Korea lags far behind the economy as a top concern for South Korean vot-ers. Although both presiden-tial contenders favor a softer approach to the North, liberal candidate Moon Jae-in wants

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centers will provide the kind of amenities and destinations that will draw people into Research Triangle Park to live and to visit.”

The design also includes plans for reducing carbon emis-sions via efficient energy usage. Most new construction will at-tempt to meet Leadership in En-ergy and Environmental Design Gold Certification—the second highest rating awarded by the U.S. Green Building Council for sustainable construction—and will incorporate some form of geothermal or solar energy. Light rail and commuter rail—a form of urban rail public transportation—could also be included in RTP’s new design as transportation alternatives to single-occupancy vehicles.

For the past 50 years, RTP has grown and developed by selling land to major companies. Now, only 9 percent of the Park’s 7,000 acres remain undeveloped.

Research Triangle Park cur-rently accommodates approxi-mately 38,000 employees, said HR&A Advisors Chairman John Alschuler Jr., whose firm con-sulted for the master plan, in a presentation on Nov. 9. Under current rules and regulations, RTP can house 45,000 employ-ees. With the implementation of this master plan, however, capac-ity may more than triple to over 150,000 employees.

Such large expansions in ca-pacity may translate to higher

economic revenue across North Carolina and increase job op-portunities for entrepreneurs emerging from Duke.

“[This] new plan is very much about how we continue to support our mission—work with the universities, create jobs and improve the quality of life for all the people [in] North Caroli-na,” said Geolas. “We would very much like to work with our uni-versities to create new models of support for students, faculty and research programs.”

On Nov. 13, RTF leaders kicked off a three-week statewide

bus tour to spread awareness about the new plan in communi-ties outside of the Raleigh-Dur-ham area. They are currently discussing with citizens and pol-icy makers about how to bring greater value to North Carolina, Geolas said.

“We have a mission to im-prove quality of life across the state,” said Geolas. “We want to make Research Triangle Park an inspiring place that represents the innovations and advance-ments made in RTP and North Carolina and make the place special and authentic.”


This artist rendering depicts plans for a reconfigured Research Triangle Park, geared toward younger generations of entrepreneurs and developers.


She is likely to be replaced by Peter Swire, an Ohio State University law professor who was a chief counselor for privacy in the Of-fice of Management and Budget during the Clinton administration, say people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the decision was yet to be finalized.

Most browsers already have settings allow-ing users to request that advertisers not track them, but the practical impact of such systems has been small. Microsoft announced in May

that it was shipping its latest generation of its Internet Explorer browser with the Do Not Track setting on as a default, angering the advertising industry, which favors a system in which consumers must personally choose to block ads.

The controversy highlighted how little agreement there is on the issue. The various groups negotiating the terms of Do Not Track have not definitively settled on exactly what the term means, what kind of data collection should be prohibited, or even how the con-sumer preference should be communicated to advertising networks.

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Full of hot airworld’s largest private organization with an en-dowment of $36.2 billion, has played a major role in the development and success of vari-ous University endeavors. A Gates’ gift created the University Scholars Program in 1998. In 2007, in conjunction with the Charlotte-based Duke Endowment, it established a $30 mil-lion gift to launch DukeEngage, which has become one of the University’s most popular programs. The program provides opportuni-ties for undergraduate students to volunteer in individual and group projects in the United States and other countries.

Senior Class President Elysia Pan said Gates is a good fit for the Class of 2013 as the gradu-ating class has been particularly active and pas-sionate about DukeEngage.

“She is one of the quintessential Duke al-ums we look up to,” Pan said. “We’re so ex-cited to hear more about her life after Duke. It will be a really electrifying moment.”

The foundation has also supported Duke’s burgeoning focus on science and research, donating $35 million in 2002 for the construc-tion of the French Family Science Center.

In the Gates family’s namesake, the 280,000-sq. ft. building is home to research

laboratories for chemistry and biology.The foundation has also contributed $10

million toward financial aid for undergradu-ates and business school students.

Some students noted that the University’s selection is a step forward for women on cam-pus.

“As a female at Duke, it’s encouraging to have a woman commencement speaker, and it shows that we are going in the right direc-tion,” Senior Libby Hase said. “It makes sense she was selected given that she is so connected to Duke and cares so much about this com-munity.”

Sophomore Ariana Qayumi noted that, given the recent photo campaign by the Wom-en’s Housing Option about the female body image, Gates will be an important voice for women on campus.

“I could see, though, how some people might see [Gates] as a cop out because of her connection to DukeEngage and the French Family Science Center,” sophomore Ray Liu noted. “But, I think that she is a great person to connect the graduating class to society, spe-cifically on the civic engagement level. She is an example of one who is attuned to what you learn in college and is able to use that to bring about greater change.”


officer. An excess amount of hunting, how-ever, throughout the 19th and 20th cen-tury dwindled the population size to 17 wolves in the Southeast.

When the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service saw the wolves nearing complete extinc-tion, the Red Wolf Recovery Program was created—a mass effort that rounded up the remaining red wolves and put them in captivity for breeding in the 1970s. As a re-sult, the wolves were officially declared as extinct in 1980 since no species remained in the wild. Because wolves had to be pure-bred in order to partake in the program, only 14 wolves served as the founders of the initiative.

A small population of around 100 wolves now live in five northeastern coun-ties of North Carolina as a result of the pro-gram’s efforts. The recent death, however, alarms those who have seen an increase in the deaths by hunting of the already devas-tated species in the past couple of years.

The red wolf is protected under the En-dangered Species Act, which provides con-servation for ecosystems that fish, wildlife and plants depend on and penalizes any-one who breaks the provisions of the act. A person charged with the unlawful taking of a red wolf faces up to one year imprison-ment and $100,000 in fines.

“A lot of these typically go unsolved and the ones that go unsolved would be the ones who know what they’re shoot-ing,” Simms said. “We are constantly find-ing animals where the collar was cut off or the animal was found with no collar, which leads me to believe that someone knew what they were doing and tried to hide the evidence.”

The collar allows members of the Re-covery Program to track the wolves’ where-

abouts as well as alert hunters that these are endangered animals, Simms said. He added that people who usually shoot the animals by accident typically call to say they have shot the animal since there is a collar on it.

Wayne said there has been an increase in gunshot mortality in the past seven years. Previously, only an average of two animals each year died as a result of gunshot wounds since the program began. In the last seven years, however, around six to eight red wolves were killed due to hunting.

“When hunting season is in full swing, when there are more hunters in the field, it’s going to cause more animals to be shot,” Simms said. “There’s no evidence suggesting it’s the same person.”

Wayne, however, believes there are many factors contributing to the increase in deaths, one of which is a desire to kill wolves because they are perceived as bad creatures who do not serve a purpose—a sentiment that extends back into the 1800s.

“Initially the hunting was this fear of top level predators—that the wolf is a big bad creature that is going to steal your babies,” Wayne said. “That same mentality has been brought over—they don’t serve a purpose, therefore they must be eliminated.”

He added that people also enjoy hunt-ing the animals for sport since wolves are strong and tough, making them difficult to take down.

Simms said sometimes hunters will kill red wolves, mistaking them for coyotes, which are often viewed as “pest species.” Coyotes are not an endangered species.

“You’ve got people who are out to kill red wolves because it’s a symbol of toughness, people who want to eradicate them because they fear [them]...and then people who honestly mistake them as a pest species,” Wayne said. “It’s a new problem now.”

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during the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament].”Unlike Duke, the Buckeyes come to

Cameron Indoor Stadium without having been pushed yet this year. A 77-66 victory over a middle-of-the-road Washington team from a suspect Pac-12 conference is

Duke’s senior class has burst out of the tunnel at Wallace Wade for the last time.

Senior Day has come and gone, and with a lackluster shootout loss to Miami, the

2012 regular season is no more. With four weeks to go before the Blue Devils’ first postseason appearance in 18 years, the attention now shifts to the team’s seniors, who have a rare opportunity to play their final game in

Duke blue after the pomp and circumstance of

Senior Day has ended. The Blue Devils’ elder statesmen are an

eclectic bunch, representative of the rag-tag group of underdogs that many of college football’s national pundits consider charac-teristic of this bowl-eligible Duke team. At first glance, they aren’t terribly imposing. With

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Duke’s bench is talented, but it has received sparse min-utes early in this season. Ohio State, on the other hand, has two key scorers off the bench in Shannon Scott and LaQuin-ton Ross.

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The last time Duke faced a team coached by first-year Michigan head coach Kim Barnes Arico, the Blue Devils overpow-ered St. John’s 74-67 in the Sweet 16 of the 2012 NCAA Tournament. Partially attribut-ing the loss to the Red Storm’s failure to manage the pressure put on by Duke, Arico cites handling pressure as the Wolverines’ key focus going into their matchup against the Blue Devils.

Fresh off blowout wins against Valparaiso and Xavier this past weekend, No. 4 Duke hopes to continue its dominating streak against Michigan Wednesday night in Ann Arbor, Mich. for the annual ACC-Big Ten Challenge.

“One of the things we really struggle with is pressure and han-dling pressure,” Arico said. “At St. John’s we had a team that handled pressure ex-tremely well, and we played Duke and did not handle pressure extremely well. I know going in that’s going to be a significant challenge for us.”

Wolverine senior Rachel Sheffer, who leads the team in scoring with an average of 16.0 points per game, noted that the squad has been preparing for that challenge, with emphases on full-court pressure and dou-ble and triple team situations.

Although an unranked Michigan team is the underdog in the contest, the Blue Devils are not overlooking the Wolverines. Duke turned its attention in practice this week to weaknesses highlighted in the Xavier game.

“There are a lot of things against Xavier that we didn’t do well and weren’t happy about,” Blue Devil head coach Joanne P. Mc-Callie said. “We’re working on being more explosive defensively, really rebounding the basketball more aggressively and also con-testing some really good shooters.”

Against Michigan—the ninth most ef-ficient three-point shooting team in the country with a three-point field-goal per-centage of 41.8 percent—contesting sharp shooters will be critical.

“We have girls that can score off the bench,” Sheffer said. “What makes our team so strong is that we have so many shooters.”

Even more potent from long-range, Duke boasts the highest three-point field-goal percentage in the country, shooting 48.8 percent from behind the arc. The Blue Devils have been paced by their of-fense this year, which ranks third in the country in scoring. Duke has outscored its opponents by an average of 44 points, good for second in the nation.

Duke to continue domination

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just 13 seniors on scholarship this season, including Kenny Anunike, who will return for a sixth year of eligibility, the Blue Devils were tied for 13th in the FBS for fewest scholarship seniors on their roster.

But don’t let their size fool you—strength in numbers can often be deceiving. Although Duke’s seniors are few, their impacts on the field this season have been enormous.

With the departure of Sean Renfree, one of the most successful quarterbacks in program history, and Conner Vernon, the most statistically accomplished wide receiver in ACC history, the Blue Devils will have Shaquille O’Neal-sized shoes to fill when it comes to offensive production next year. On the defensive side of the football, the team will have to carry on without its top two tacklers, safeties Walt Canty and Jordon Byas. Cornerback Lee Butler was one of the team’s starting cornerbacks, in addition to being the team’s leading kick returner. When the dust

settles this May, the Blue Devils will have lost their starting quarterback, one of their three primary running backs, two of their top three wide receivers, two starting safeties and two of their top three cornerbacks.

Holes in the depth chart, however, will account for the smallest loss this team will incur the next time its senior class walks into Wallace Wade Stadium—this time for their commencement ceremonies. More importantly, Duke will lose its most fear-less leaders. Renfree, Vernon and Canty were three of the team’s four co-captains this season. Byas, wide receiver Desmond Scott and center Brian Moore were three of the team’s emotional leaders as well. Sharing a unified leadership style, this group is hardly a vocal bunch—they lead by example, and the example they have set this season is a large part of why this

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Typically, college basketball teams are not battle-tested until they finish the heart of their conference schedule. The No. 2 Blue Devils (6-0)—who already own hard-fought wins over No. 8 Kentucky, No. 21 Minnesota, VCU and No. 5 Louisville—are well ahead of the curve though in the opening month of the 2012-13 season.

With limited rest following the team’s first-place finish last week at the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament, the schedule does not lighten up. Duke’s final test of its November gauntlet takes place Wednesday at Cameron Indoor Stadium against No. 4 Ohio State (4-0) in the ACC-Big 10 Challenge.

“To me it’s easy to get up for these games,” Duke senior co-captain Mason Plumlee said. “And I think that this is a team that loves these kind of games, judging by how we’ve played so far this season.”

The Blue Devils will need that added ener-gy—something they lacked against Ohio State last year—as they attempt to beat a third 2012 Final Four squad. After winning the Maui Invi-tational last November and making the cross-country trek there and back, Duke had short turnaround time for its trip to Columbus, Ohio on the following Tuesday. Consequently, fatigue played a significant role in the Blue Devils’ 85-63 dismantling at the hands of the Buckeyes.

“We got blown out,” Plumlee said. “We didn’t compete and we didn’t even play hard. It set us back.”

In this year’s rematch, the element of re-venge, to some degree, will serve as added mo-tivation for Duke.

“To be frank, yes. I think so,” Duke senior power forward Ryan Kelly said, with regards to there being extra fire for this game. “It’s hard not to have some bad memories. Everyday we have got to have something to prove. We’ve had an unbelievable schedule. We’ve been put in a position where we have to compete every single day with the teams we are playing against.”

Despite the advantages of playing at home, the limited recovery period will again be a fac-tor this year, especially for Duke senior shoot-ing guard Seth Curry, who continues to play through a lingering lower leg injury but is forced to miss practices on a weekly basis.

“I don’t think [my leg] is all the way back,” Curry said. “It definitely feels better [than it did


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Duke alumus Kevin Cullen now works as Duke basketball’s video coordinator, and scouts upcoming opponents.

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by Andrew BeatonTHE CHRONICLE

When Greg Paulus played at Duke, Kevin Cullen was tasked with mopping his sweat off the floor as one of the team’s managers. But Cullen’s job also required working extensively on Duke’s film prep-aration because the team did not have a full-time video coordinator prior to his graduation in 2007.

Now Paulus returns to Cameron Indoor Stadium in his second season as video co-ordinator for Ohio State, and Cullen has held that same role with Duke since 2008. Their jobs are to outscout the other team, but this time it has personal ties.

“We’ve still got some preparation be-fore I can get into reflection. It’ll be a re-ally good test,” Paulus said of his return to Duke. “[Cullen] is really good at what he does, and he’s an even better person.”

The video and scouting departments work differently at each school, but it is grueling everywhere. At Duke, Cullen runs the operation from a computer-filled room in the team’s practice facility, the Krzyze-wski Center for Athletic Excellence. There he can cut the film from games or practic-es—with a joystick at his desk, he can an-gle cameras inside both the K Center and Cameron Indoor Stadium for filming. He works with the current managers who aid him in the process.

“I didn’t get very good grades in school because I was here doing film. It’s a tradeoff. I loved every minute of it,” he said. “I suppose I could have been out fi-landering and drinking and all those other things that people at Duke do, but I chose to be here watching film at 2 a.m.”

The Blue Devils’ three assistant coach-es—Chris Collins, Steve Wojciechowski and Jeff Capel—rotate as the lead scout for each game, working with Cullen. Ohio State is Collins’ turn in the rota-tion, which meant that as soon as the Bat-tle 4 Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas finished, he was working with Cullen for Wednesday’s action.

And that preparation begins immedi-

ately—once the game and the press con-ferences are done, eight members of the staff assemble to rewatch the game in its entirety. Even after Sunday’s finale in the Bahamas finished near midnight, head coach Mike Krzyzewski assembled his small council: Capel, Collins, Cullen, special as-sistant Nate James, basketball operations assistant Casey Stevenson, director of bas-ketball operations Pat Thompson and Wojciechowski.

“Coach K is going to have the remote. He’s going to watch the game anyways,” Cullen said. “There’s a lot of head coaches that after a game are going to go to sleep and come in at noon the next day and leave a video coordinator up working un-til 3 a.m…. But when you’ve got everybody invested and up at 3 a.m. working with you, it’s really easy to do what you do.”

After watching the previous game’s foot-age, the group then defers to the lead scout for the next game—in this case Collins—who gives the group a primer on the next team with footage he has already worked on with Cullen. Krzyzewski does not watch footage of the teams except for the imme-diate opponent, Cullen said, so the post-game session is his first in-depth look at that next squad.

“The assistant coaches drive most of the scouting,” Cullen said. “You may as well have the voices you trust and the voices you want to listen to who are on your staff be present with you while you’re trying to for-mulate your opinions.”

Another one of those top-notch coaches is Ohio State’s Thad Matta, who hired Pau-lus last year after he spent a year as an as-sistant coach at Navy. Even though Paulus worked extensively in film preparation in his role with the Midshipmen, the role of a video coordinator is quite different. NCAA rules limit teams from having more than four total coaches, so other personnel, such as video coordinators, are not allowed to work directly with the players on the court during both practices and games.

“We are going to have a tough time matching up with their size, strength and athleticism,” Arico said. “It’s going to be a really difficult matchup for us, but hope-fully we can take care of the ball and have our home-court advantage.”

Another one of Duke’s strengths has been its ball movement. Junior point guard Chel-sea Gray is largely responsible for the Blue Devils’ success in this area, with the best as-sist-to-turnover ratio in the nation at 7.5.

“We’ve been moving the ball and shar-

ing the ball really well, getting in open spots and running through our offense smoothly,” she said.

The Blue Devils have won 11 of their last 13 matchups with Big Ten opponents, in-cluding their past two with the Wolverines. Duke hopes to make a strong showing at the ACC-Big Ten Challenge Wednesday night in a hostile road environment.

“We want to represent our conference well in this type of environment and are really excited to face a team from another big-time conference and handle business out there,” Gray said.


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After a season in which this program made monumental strides toward national relevancy for the first time this century, Duke may face a bit of an identity crisis as it heads toward the offseason. Luckily, head coach David Cutcliffe, who earned the ACC’s Coach of the Year award Tuesday, helped to establish a piece of this identity when he signed on to coach the Blue Devils through 2019. But Cut-cliffe certainly has his work cut out for him to fill some of these crucial holes.

Primarily, Cutcliffe will need to select a new quarterback, whether that is Anthony Boone, Brandon Connette or newcomer Thomas Sirk, who redshirted this season. After this selection is made, he will need to decide whether or not a different style of quarterback may warrant a different structure

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Ohio State’s best victory to date.The nucleus of head coach Thad Matta’s

squad is a bit different from last year. Forward William Buford and All-American big man Jared Sullinger—who combined to average 32 points per contest last season—are gone. In their absence, forward Deshaun Thomas has filled much of the void offensively this year. Easily the team’s most potent offensive weap-on, the 6-foot-7 inside-outside threat is off to a remarkably hot start in his junior campaign, averaging 24.0 points per game—the sixth-best scoring average in the country—and 7.3 rebounds per game.

Coming off the best three-game stretch of his career and an MVP performance in the Ba-hamas, Duke sophomore point guard Quinn Cook will face one of his toughest matchups of the year—Ohio State floor general Aaron Craft. Improving his scoring capabilities since last year, the 6-foot-2 junior point guard is the catalyst of the Buckeyes’ offense—averaging 14.3 points per game and 5.3 assists—and is one of the peskiest on-ball defenders in the country.

“[Craft] is definitely a great defensive player,” Duke junior guard Tyler Thorn-ton said. “He puts on a lot of ball pres-sure and plays passing lanes very well.

“I think it does [give me a different per-spective]. It’s an opportunity to learn the game, watch our team, analyze and get in-sights,” Paulus said.

Paulus credited his four years at Duke with Krzyzewski, from 2005-2009, with teaching him a great deal, but he also said that work-ing with Matta has been influential. The scout-ing process works differently in Columbus, Ohio—Cullen noted that while the assistants divide the games at Duke, the Ohio State assis-tants prepare together for each game, all tak-ing a different aspect of the opposing team.

That does not mean one way is right or wrong, though Krzyzewski has made his sys-tem the American way after coaching the U.S. Olympic basketball teams to gold in 2008 and 2012. Cullen served as the video

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The Blue Devils hope to make a comeback Wednesday after a 85-63 loss to Ohio State last November.

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voted to file the action against Maryland.The complaint seeks declaratory judgment

requiring Maryland to pay the full ACC exit fee, which equals three times the ACC’s an-nual operating budget, according to a copy of the document obtained by The Chroni-cle. The 2012-2013 ACC operating budget is $17,422,114, according to the lawsuit.

“The Council of Presidents, following con-sideration of the types and amounts of finan-cial and other harm that would potentially occur in the event of a member’s withdrawal, concluded the sum of three times the annual operating budget of the ACC was a fair and reasonable approximation of the potential financial and other harm resulting from with-drawal,” paragraph 21 of the complaint states.

The complaint alleges Maryland President Wallace Loh proposed raising the exit fee in 2011 before voting against the increase at the beginning of this fall.

The primary legal issue at hand is whether the exit fee is a liquidated dam-age or penalty. Penalty clauses are not en-

forceable while liquidated damages are—Maryland likely believes the fee, at least in part, is penalizing in nature, Paul Haagen, a Duke Law professor who specializes in sports contracts said.

“A liquidated damage is an attempt to es-timate the harm, a good-faith attempt to esti-mate damage,” Haagen said. “A penalty is an effort to prevent somebody from engaging in a breach by discouraging you from breach-ing... that it’s well beyond any harm the league would suffer.”

Legal chess likely motivated the ACC to file the complaint, Haagen said, because by filing before Maryland, the conference was able to choose the location of the court, in this case their home district of Greensboro, North Carolina.

“You’re in the forum of your own lawyers, so it’s an advantage to [the ACC],” Haagen said. [Greensboro] is in the heart of the AOCC, so there’s a greater sense of the importance of the viability of the ACC. You’re not going to have the same sensitivity in a Maryland ju-risdiction. If you can get jurisdiction that’s to your advantage.”

coordinator for the 2012 team, traveling to London, and said the scouting process worked similarly there as he worked with both Collins and Wojciechowski, who served as two of Krzyzewski’s assistants.

“Coach K has done a really good job at bringing the Duke culture to the Olympic team,” Cullen said. “[Collins, Wojciechowski and myself] do scouting the same way we do here at Duke.”

And as Paulus gears up to return to his for-mer home court to try and beat Duke for a sec-ond straight season, there is only one guaran-tee for him and Cullen: after the game, which starts at 9:30 p.m., it’s on to the next one.

“We’ll all be there until two, three in the morning, whatever it is. The later the game, the later we’re watching stuff,” Cul-len said. “Coach [Krzyzewski] will go home at 5 a.m. He’ll watch more film.”

to the Blue Devils’ offensive scheme. It is unclear where Duke will turn to fill

the voids of its lost leaders as well. Redshirt junior cornerback Ross Cockrell is the team’s lone returning captain and the Blue Devils’ junior class does not contain a high number of the team’s starters. Dave Harding and Perry Simmons will be responsible for stabiliz-ing Duke’s offensive line in Moore’s absence, but it will be interesting to see how the Blue Devils move forward from here.

Having an age gap among Duke’s primary contributors is not always the worst thing. Duke is fortunate to be stocked with young talents who have been able to contribute early in their careers. But as the team moves forward from its most successful season in 18 years, the question remains—how do the Blue Devils replace so much leadership and talent, particularly at the skill positions?

Let’s just leave it to Cutcliffe to answer that question. After all, he just took a giant pay day to be the man for that job.

He controls his team very well.”Netting 11.5 points per game as a starter,

Ohio State’s Lenzelle Smith—a 6-foot-4 junior guard—has demonstrated an ability to score too. And lanky forward LaQuinton Ross—who is Duke sophomore Rodney Hood’s friend and former AAU teammate in high school—and guard Shannon Scott are both gifted ath-letes that are capable of tallying double-digit scoring outputs off the bench.

With the emergence of Cook as a compe-tent distributor and lead guard, the Blue Dev-ils enter the contest playing at a high level—all five starters are averaging double figures. The team has already seemingly established roles for each individual on the team too.

“I think we’re so balanced,” Plumlee said. “There are times you’d grab the box score after the game, we’d have five guys in double figures, which is great. To me, those are always the hardest teams to defend.”

To beat a third top-10 foe for a third straight week, the Blue Devils cannot afford to be com-placent with what they have accomplished in the early going.

“Obviously, we did some good things in the Bahamas, but that can’t be where it ends,” Kel-ly said. “We have to take the good things, drop any bad things and get better in the areas we need to get better in. And move on to the next thing, and our next step is Ohio State.”


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When I turn in my physics homework, I have to jump. The box is well above an arm’s reach, and when I hold my arm

straight up, problem set in hand, the top of my paper just reaches the mouth of the box. Every Monday I have the same concern. Will I accidentally slip up this week and send my work sliding into a different class’s homework box? Will I have to track down my TA and explain what happened, or try and fi sh out the homework with coat hanger and gum? The major-ity of my class will probably never think twice, reaching up comfort-ably from their lofty 5 feet 8 inches or 6 feet 2 inches and then leaving the building without looking back. But sometimes it sucks to be the little guy.

When it comes to relevant social concerns, there are obviously multitudes that any ethical and conscientious individual should consider. There’s AIDS and illiteracy and homelessness and climate change. There’s animal testing to be contested and un-fair trade coffee to be shirked. It can be exhausting and empowering, trying to save the world, and often such an external focus distracts from discriminatory issues that face Duke students today. But for those students unlucky enough to be shorter than the average American, there are very real issues of discrimi-nation that deserve notice.

In Starbucks last week, a barista did a double take as I ordered coffee. “Aren’t you a little young for coffee?” he asked. Just because I’m the same height as the 12-year-olds ordering hot cocoas and frappe-mocha-cappu-chocolate-ccinos (hold the coffee, of course!), doesn’t mean I’m the same age. There’s such a stigma, such a strong associa-tion of smallness with youngness. It’s a fair, bio-logical association to be sure; generally the small-est people we interact with are the ones who are fi ve, four, three years old. But don’t assume that because someone could apply for legal status as a midget it means they aren’t old enough to vote. Or drink coffee. You wouldn’t assume the stu-dent with glasses is any smarter than the one who opts for contacts or has 20-20 vision, yet I know people make assumptions about me based on my height every day. In restaurants waiters hand me crayons and kids menus. On Election Day, I’m given a kid’s ballot. One of my friends offered to buy me a step stool. The stool incident probably demonstrates more mockery than unintentional assumption, but you get the gist.

On top of the trials and tribulations of life as a short girl, consider being a short guy in mod-

ern America. People can be cruel. The discrimi-nation that vertically challenged, high-school boys face come prom time alone is enormous. The nicer girls will of course say yes when a

shorter guy asks. While other girls go back and forth between shoe/dress/jewelry combinations, these obliging girls are subject to weeks of surreptitiously trying to fi gure out just how short their heels (or even fl ats!) have to be. It’s always a struggle, to try and slip in, “Now exactly how tall are you?” into a normal conversation and often it’s easier to say, “Sorry, but I hear prom is more fun stag anyways!”

It’s true that life isn’t fair, but the stigma verti-cally challenged individuals deal with is all too arbitrary. What gives social pressure the right to force the image of a couple with a taller guy on us? The nice girls who subscribe to the knee-bending/slouching/fl ats-wearing prom expe-riences only perpetuate the belief that the girl must be shorter. Until the norm changes, until it’s acceptable for the prom picture on your par-ents’ mantle to boast a full foot height differen-tial in the girl’s favor, being short will retain a negative connotation among men. I personally am holding out for the day that prom date op-tions are judged not on their height, but on the content of their character.

Perceptions can be an extremely diffi cult social trend to change, and at this point I’m resigned to people entering my acquaintance with precon-ceptions based upon my height. Just like those who draw conclusions based upon my gender, it’s hard to change the fi rst impression associated with meeting someone who is 5 feet 2 inches. But there are real, tangible things we can change now that would make the transition to a height-blind society easier. For instance, look at the shelves in stores. The Lobby Shop and ABP both sell items at a height that’s short enough to make you think any reasonable individual should be able to reach them sans stepping stool, but still tall enough that some of us just can’t reach. Small changes that make being short less of a physical hurdle will re-move the association of shortness with inability to do basic things (like turn in physics homework!). Being short doesn’t have to mean you’ve drawn the short straw. I’m proud I never drank milk growing up, and I can only hope that some day, our community, too, can value non-discriminatory acceptance of all shapes and sizes.

Lydia Thurman is a Trinity sophomore. This is her fi nal column of the semester.

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Lee Royster’s sentencing is a culmination of a tragedy that illustrates the need for an immediate shift in atti-tudes toward drunk driving in society and especially on Duke’s campus. Our thoughts remain with all those who were affected by last September’s catastroph-ic incident, particularly the family of the late Matthew Grape. In one sense, we feel uncomfortable using a trag-edy of this nature as a plat-form to discuss the broader issue of drunk driving, but the prevention of future tragedies is a crucially im-portant higher motive. To this end, we continue to see serious problems with the way drunk driving is per-ceived by students on cam-

pus, Duke’s administration and society at large.

A small portion of Duke’s student population contin-ues to treat drunk driving much too casually. This prob-

lem may be-coming more pronounced

at Duke than other campus-es in part because of recent shifts of the dominant social life off-campus and the close proximity of popular spots off campus—students some-times dismiss the gravity of driving drunk across short distances. The reality, of course, is that blasé attitude towards any kind of drunk driving are unacceptable and can result in death. It is incumbent upon anyone who has driven drunk or even tolerated drunk driv-

ing in the past to reevaluate their attitudes now.

But these attitudes are no doubt driven by the Duke administration’s treatment of drunk driving, which is absurdly lenient. Driving un-der the infl uence is current-ly listed by Student Affairs only as one of several nega-tive consequences resulting from alcohol consumption that also include litter and property damage.

The treatment of drunk driving as merely a sub-category of drinking policy needs to change dramati-cally. In fact, we advocate a zero-tolerance policy to-ward drunk driving: any Duke student caught drunk driving should be expelled. This may strike some read-ers as an unfair punishment

for people caught driving only slightly over the BAC limit. But our view is that only the harshest penalty will compel students to re-evaluate their current at-titudes toward drunk driv-ing. Anything else merely perpetrates the risk that Duke students continue to treat some instances of drunk driving—over short distances or after ‘only a few’ drinks—as acceptable. This seemingly harmless at-titude can be deadly. Simply put, students who do not disavow illegal drinking and driving in all forms should not be welcome in our com-munity, and the administra-tive sanction should be seri-ous enough to stop anyone considers drunk driving in their tracks.

We would like to see simi-lar changes in our legal sys-tem. Driving drunk is not an accident—it is a deliber-ate decision that results in the death of others. Treat-ing it as a misdemeanor, as many jurisdictions do, is not commensurate with the gravity of the potential consequences. We strongly encourage the relevant au-thorities to rethink the mes-sage they send to teenagers when they award minimal or no jail time for a crime that remains among the leading causes of death for teenag-ers in America.

For too long, our com-munity’s attitude to drunk driving has facilitated the continued occurrence of un-necessary tragedies. We can-not correct it soon enough.

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In recent years, a collection of million-aires has made appeals to the state to in-crease tax rates on high earners. Among

these ostensible champions of the greater good, no voice has been louder, perhaps, than that of celebrated fi nancial guru and Washington insider Warren Buffett.

In his most recent contribution, Buf-fet argues—largely from a position of anecdotal evi-dence—that an increase in top tax rates for the wealthy will not disincentivize in-vestment. Although it is diffi cult to see how such a policy could possibly pro-mote investment, both Buf-fett and fellow New York Times contributor Paul Krugman have pointed to the boom years following World War II—during which top rates reached as high as 90 percent—as evidence that high taxes can promote economic growth. “America in the 1950s made the rich pay their fair share,” Krugman argues. “It gave workers the power to bargain for decent wages and benefi ts; yet contrary to right-wing propa-ganda then and now, it prospered. And we can do that again.”

The problems with this reading of his-tory are numerous, and there is nowhere near space enough to list them here. It should suffi ce to point out, however, that even if such a representation were entirely accurate, Buffett and Krugman would still be guilty of basing their arguments on “post hoc ergo propter hoc”—or, “af-ter this, therefore because of this”—logic. To put it more simply, the two make the somewhat basic mistake of assuming that correlation implies causation. If the two of them really would enlist the help of the state to forcibly confi scate the wealth of others, then it must certainly be on them to demonstrate the mechanism behind the relationship between high taxes and economic growth that they are suggesting. For them to merely assert that it is so is, unfortunately, not enough.

On top of these shaky foundations of misinterpreted historical evidence, the ar-guments of tax enthusiasts such as Buffett often fail to convince due to their selective presentations of numbers and statistics. In his most recent plea, for example, Buffett cites the average income of the super-rich as $202 million before revealing that, in 2009, many of them paid tax rates below 20 percent. Of course, he neglects to men-tion that, in nominal terms, this 20 percent rate works out to roughly $40 million for each of those individuals. More disturb-ingly, Buffett complains that, last year, the government brought in only 15.5 percent of GDP in tax revenue, and implies that this is somehow the result of a lenient tax policy on the part of the federal govern-ment. A quick look at data from both the Congressional Budget Offi ce and the Of-fi ce of Management and Budget, however, indicate that this anomalous total comes on the heels of a plunge that occurred, predictably, at the beginning of the re-cent recession. In fact, not only does the data show that last year’s 15.5 percent total marked an increase over the 2010 total of 15.1 percent, it also demonstrates that tax receipts have held relatively stable at an av-erage of 18.1 percent of GDP going all the way back to 1945. This means that, despite the wild swings in top marginal tax rates we have seen over the past half-century, the government has collected roughly the same amount in revenues—calculated as a percentage of GDP—every year since World War II.

To return to an earlier point, this pres-ents a problem for those who promote

the idea that high tax rates were the pri-mary driver of growth in the postwar years. Krugman cites the 1950s as some paragon of both prosperity and progressive ideals, and yet tax receipts as a percentage of GDP were the lowest they have ever been since World War II, at 14.4 percent, in 1950. For almost the entire decade, they remained

below average, and never even made it as high as 20 percent of GDP. It remains to be explained, then, how the 90 percent tax rates that led to such historically un-remarkable revenues could have been chiefl y responsi-ble for the widespread pros-perity of that era.

To move—admittedly prematurely—beyond the

loose facts of these arguments, it’s impor-tant to note as well that commentators like Buffett and Krugman do a poor job of articulating the best arguments against their position, and thus lapse into the sorts of straw man fallacies that are usu-ally emblematic of minds of lesser esteem. The two, for instance, consistently ridicule the notion that the wealthy would pass up investment opportunities on account of higher taxes. A collection of serious free market economists, however, is less con-cerned with a lack of investment than the fundamental restructuring of investment that such a policy of higher taxation might create. Any intervention into the volun-tary market—and especially a forcible bi-nary intervention in the form of property confi scation—serves in the fi nal analysis to redirect resources along paths they other-wise would not have followed. In the case of increased taxation, this often has the effect of diverting capital that would have gone to uses valued highly by consumers instead toward those—such as inherently unworkable green energy boondoggles—that offer no return and, as a result, make the population poorer overall. It remains to be seen how Buffett, Krugman and co. would move beyond their underinvest-ment caricatures toward a successful refu-tation of this more serious malinvestment problem.

At the risk of lapsing into my own ad hominem argument, I would like to point out a curious fact that holds true for many of the wealthy advocates of increased taxa-tion: These men and women, like Eliza-beth Warren—who, despite a net worth of $14.5 million and a career established on the principles of the progressive move-ment, has failed to pay the meager vol-untary taxes offered in her home state of Massachusetts—almost always fail to freely contribute more to the state than it demands in taxes from them. And War-ren Buffett, for instance, allows his read-ers to believe that when he advocates the abolition of carried interest, he is arguing against his own self-interest for the greater good—despite the fact that it is his com-petitors in private equity, and not he, who primarily rely on such an arrangement to capture profi ts.

In “A History of Money and Banking in the United States,” American economist Murray Rothbard warned that we must always respond to arguments for changes in policy by asking, “Cui bono,” or, “Who benefi ts?” Those who consume and recycle the views of men like Buffett and Krugman would do well to take that advice.

Chris Bassil, Trinity ’12, is currently working for Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Mass. His column runs every Wednesday. You can follow Chris on Twitter @HamsterdamEcon.

Fallacies and errors

For the past year, my articles have been devoted to the glorifi cation of one thing: dorkiness.

Also the ’90s. And “Harry Potter.” And accidental celibacy.

But admittedly, the fi rst concept can unequiv-ocally encompass the latter three. Dorkiness casts a rather entertain-ing shadow over all my interests and attributes, so it consequentially per-colates my every satirical soliloquy.

I moralize awkward-ness and goofi ness. Not only because they’re emblems of my own routine behavior, but also because heralding their signifi cance makes me distinctively self-deprecating. Distinct is the key word here, because ultimately my goal has always been to be different. Call me a freak any day of the week; I’d rather express nuttiness than normalcy.

“American Beauty,” a movie devoted to making young female moviegoers un-comfortably attracted to Kevin Spacey, articulated it best. While getting groped by the same wrinkly, sexual hands that beheaded Gwyneth Paltrow in “Seven,” Mena Suvari’s character says, “I don’t think there’s anything worse than being ordinary.” Is that not the overarching theme in all of our lives? Whether under-statedly or very ferociously so, you have to admit that some part of you wants noth-ing more than to be above average.

That attitude manifests itself in a va-riety of ways. And for me, there’s been a developmental spectrum of how I dem-onstrate my divergences from the main-stream. In the early stages, I was just a weird little girl who desperately wanted to act alternatively to the boy-crazy, gig-gly girls around her. So instead of fl irt-ing during recess, I’d pretend that I was being possessed by Elizabethan-era ghosts. This is the time of my life where my teachers would misguidedly label me as “imaginative” rather than “a lunatic.” Later on in high school, I embraced cynicism for the sake of cynicism. Even-tually in my college years, I became an overly involved overachiever. The path was a bit convoluted, but each juncture demonstrated the same desire to be dif-ferent and, indirectly, impressive.

For as long as there has been pop cul-ture, there has been pop counterculture fl aunted by pockets of people rebelling against the social norm. The beatniks, the hippies, the goths—every decade has its own twist on oddity. Nowadays hipsters are a heavily contended subdi-vision of our sociological stratosphere, being as popular as they are unpopular. Society hates them and they hate them-selves, an unusually reciprocal disdain.

Recently, several major publications

have ranted against the ironic ambi-ence of our generation. As someone who lives her life like there should be air quotes around her at all times, this

resonates with me. I be-came a sarcastic bastard at the same age I realized my boobs had stopped growing—11ish. So it’s no surprise to me when someone calls me a hip-ster. Whether due to my high-waisted jeans or my general disposition, I admittedly appear to as-sociate with this ironic archetype.

And I know that true hipsters aren’t allowed to admit their hipsterdom, but I don’t embrace the epithet because I have a purely fl annel wardrobe or be-cause I read obscure anime comics just to be kitschy. In the purest sense, a hip-ster is just another evolution of those who dare and desire to be different. So gee, it feels good to be a hipster.

Earlier I alluded to the fact that wanting to be different can be coupled with wanting to be impressive. Impres-sive and different are both stark con-trasts to ordinary, so it makes sense that they are at least arbitrarily related. I’ve struggled with the insecurities of being unimpressive a lot since graduation. There are so many easy ways to seem impressive at Duke—through your so-cial clout, your grades or your extracur-riculars. Out here, the labels are more ambiguous. Obviously that’s a good thing, but it can be a little disorienting at the same time. I’m no longer LDOC co-chair, or a FAC board member or DUU VP. And now I’m no longer writ-ing for The Chronicle.

This is the last article I’ll be writing for the Socialites. Being an anti-social Socialite wasn’t something that was necessarily impressive per se, but it was something I was proud of. It was some-thing that challenged me creatively and intellectually, and now it’s coming to an end. When you reach the end of some-thing, you feel obligated to exit with signifi cance. That’s how senior year felt. Like if every weekend wasn’t legendary, then I was doing it wrong.

Expecting signifi cance from myself distracts me from the unadulterated purity of momentary fun. In moving on from things like the Chronicle, I’m let-ting go of things that I rely on too heav-ily to make me feel impressive.

Though I will always be a little bit freaky and a little bit geeky, in some other ways it’s time to grow up.

Lindsay Tomson, Trinity ’12, is currently applying her Duke-developed skills of sarcasm and awkwardness in the real world. This is her fi nal column of the semester.

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to restore the joint economic projects that were scrapped under the current president, Lee Myung-bak. Moon also has said he will seek summit talks next year.

North Korea has tried and failed three times to send a satellite into or-bit, most recently on April 13, when the Unha-3 rocket fell apart shortly after launch. The blast had been intended as the showcase moment for a weekend cel-ebrating the 100th birthday of deceased national founder Kim Il Sung.

The North is gearing up for another anniversary Dec. 17, which marks one year since the death of Kim Jong Il, who is Kim Il Sung’s son and the father of current supreme leader Kim Jong Eun.

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A major change to the building’s up-per level will be the unification of the University Store, Lobby Shop and Gothic Bookshop into one large shopping area. Although there will be one main entrance and one set of cash registers, the stores will have individual sliding gates, allowing them to hold separate operating hours.

As part of the University Store system, the Computer Store will also be part of the shopping area. It is currently being remodeled into a “Technology Cen-ter” and is set to open within the next month—one of the first renovations that will be completed.

“It will really be an upscale space and will offer a much better display of the computers and laptops,” said Van Dyk.

The Computer Store’s former loca-tion, on the building’s lower level, will now host the post office. The relocation of Duke’s 6,000 West Campus mailboxes from their current space on the interme-diate level will occur over winter break. Work will then begin on reconfiguring the intermediate level into a home for student activities, with space allocated to UCAE, the Black Student Alliance and Duke Student Government.

Glass walls will be used in this area as well, creating a more open and fluid en-vironment, and there will meeting rooms and other spaces available for student use, Van Dyk noted.

He added that the intermediate level’s lounge area, with televisions and a pool table, will remain untouched.

In addition to the post office, the low-er level will house the Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life and the Duke Leader-ship Development and Social Action of-fice. These offices will be located in what

is currently Von Canon Hall.Von Canon A will be renovated, but

will remain a reservable meeting space. Although Von Canon B and C will be filled by new offices, Van Dyk noted that there will be ample new meting space in the Events Pavilion, which is slated to be completed summer 2013 and will house dining operations during the West Union Building renovation.

The Center for Multicultural Affairs will retain its lower level location, but it will receive new carpet, lighting and air conditioning.

Students who were in attendance at the open house voiced their approval of the renovation plans.

“The presentation was really good,” said junior Neil Kondamuri, Duke Stu-dent Government vice president for

social culture. “It should be a pleasant surprise for the students coming back to school next year. It seems like a great way to make a relatively old space modern, with all the glass and open areas.”

Senior Chris Brown, a member of the The Chronicle’s independent editorial board, said he felt the renovations would add vitality to the building and encour-age students to frequent the student cen-ter more often.

“We’ve seen a gradual progression of change in the Bryan Center, notably with Au Bon Pain, which is a significant addi-tion and a good example of something that adds life and fosters a sense of com-munity,” he said. “[With these renova-tions], we’re taking the steps necessary to make this change consistent through the building.”

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Ted Van Dyk, Trinity ’83 and principal and founder of architecture firm New City Design Group, dis-played detailed floor plans of the Bryan Center renovations at an open house Tuesday afternoon.

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